Can you eat your way to keeping gray hair at bay? Many people go to great lengths to cover up their grays, but fans say one buzzy antioxidant may help to stop that discoloration before it event starts. According to one longevity expert, stress has a direct bearing on the color and quality of our … Read more
An Iowa family recently celebrated a major milestone for a very special baby. Mollie and Randall Keen welcomed their son, Nash Keen, on July 5, 2024. He was born 133 days early, at just 21 weeks of gestation. Guinness World Records has officially recognized Nash as the world’s most premature baby to survive. Earlier this month, Nash … Read more
Philip Sunshine, a Stanford University physician who played an important role in establishing neonatology as a medical specialty, revolutionizing the care of premature and critically ill newborns who previously had little chance of survival, died on April 5 at his home in Cupertino, Calif. He was 94. His death was confirmed by his daughter Diana … Read more
Matthew Broderick had no desire to become the next Mr. Big. The 62-year-old actor revealed why he never appeared in “Sex and the City” despite his wife, Sarah Jessica Parker, being the show’s star during its six seasons from 1998 to 2004. While appearing on Thursday episode of SiriusXM’s “This Life of Mine with James Corden” podcast, … Read more
Women who go into menopause before 40 are four times more likely to die young from cancer — and twice as likely to die young of heart disease or something else, a new study from Finland has found. However, the researchers say that using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for more than six months can cut … Read more
Sex on the first date? You might only be screwing yourself if you’re looking for lasting love. “Premature intimacy” — dubbed “PMI” — refers to the act of baring too much in the early stages of courtship, with one dating expert saying it’s potentially perilous. PMI includes both sexual and emotional intimacy, whereby a person … Read more
A Mediterranean life is a longer life. It’s long been known that the Mediterranean diet is good for one’s health, but a new Harvard study found that living a Mediterranean lifestyle can decrease the odds of premature death by 29%. So what exactly is the “Mediterranean lifestyle?” It’s not just the much-touted Mediterranean diet, which … Read more
A UK woman thought she was suffering from a stomach bug last month — it turns out she was pregnant with twins. Lucy Shaw, 34, from Staffordshire, unexpectedly gave birth to twin boys on July 5, a British hospital system announced this week. Shaw had what is called a cryptic or invisible pregnancy, which can … Read more
For their first birthday, these Canadian twins got a Guinness World Record. Adiah and Adrial Nadarajah have been crowned the world’s most premature twins — after arriving 126 days early on March 4, 2022. The brother and sister took the title from US twins Keeley and Kambry Ewoldt, who were born 125 days early in … Read more
When Penn Badgley was a baby his mother had to resuscitate him several times a day, the star has revealed. The “Gossip Girl” actor, 36, stopped by the HypocondriActor podcast and shared he was born two months premature with multiple health problems. “The first couple of weeks I was in a NICU [neonatal intensive care unit] because my heart … Read more
For every 2,000 steps you take each day, your risk for premature death may fall by 8 to 11 percent, according to research published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. Along with the results from a related study, published in JAMA Neurology, the researchers also found that walking more, accumulating up to roughly 10,000 steps … Read more
LONDON — Pumping iron can almost halve an older person’s risk of a premature death, according to new research. Muscle strengthening workouts protect against almost every life-threatening illness, study authors from the National Cancer Institute say. Lifting weights makes the body leaner and can also improve mental well-being, according to the study. Gyms are also … Read more